Abigail's birthday cake adventure

My sister is the master baker. I mean, she should be on some cooking/baking show she's so darn good. :) For Rachel's 3rd birthday she made this amazing Dora cake for me with home-made icing and blew me away with her mad piping skills. :) So this year I decided to try my hand at what my sister does best...frosting a cake.
Okay, first off, you have to, like, totally bake the cake. Not complicated you say..well, apparently it was for me. I mean, come on people, it's a box cake mix! (chuckle)
Not even reading the instructions for this bear birthday cake pan, I decided to put 2 boxes of mix in the pan, instead of the 1 that was needed. What happens when you put too much mix in a pan? That's right, it overflows and bakes on the bottom of the oven. Realizing that there was smoke in the house was my first clue. :) I open the oven to find that my lovely strawberry cake was now a molten lava catastrophe! I pulled it out of the oven and in all my ingeniousness decided to flip the cake over into a cookie sheet pan... thinking that it would hold it all. Not a chance. So now I have released the hot molten lava onto my beautifully clean burners...yes, I know...it gets better. :) Not wanting my burners to be covered in liquid strawberry cake, I pull the sheet off...now over the floor, dripping hot cake mix everywhere. What fun Mom! Abigail now sees what I'm doing and decides to have a finger painting session right there on the floor with her uncooked strawberry cake. :) Sigh. Maybe I should have gone to Costco instead. lol

Alright. So I started over. With white cake this time. :) I figured I'd already had WAY too much fun with the strawberry kind.

It worked. Yeah!!!! I CAN bake a box mix... stop laughing everyone. :)

Here is the final project completed!

He's kind of smirking isn't he????

Lessons learned:
1. Read directions before beginning project! (Very important one here)
2. Make lots of frosting so you don't have to try and duplicate the same color if you run out.
3. The black dye stains your hands so be careful!!!!
4. This is much harder to do with a one year old hanging onto your leg. :) Recommendation is to do this during naptime. lol
5. Make sure the frosting is cool cause otherwise it looks "blobby".
6. This is stinking hard so kudos to Victoria for all her hard work!!!!!!

This is the conclusion of my "bear birthday cake" fun. :) We will dig in tomorrow!